“You must come to Lockleigh again," said Miss Molyneux, very sweetly, to Isabel,
ignoring this remark of Isabel's friend. Isabel looked into her quiet eyes a moment,
and for that moment seemed to see in their grey depths the reflexion
of everything she had rejected in rejecting Lord Warburton —
the peace, the kindness, the honour, the possessions,
a deep security, and a great exclusion.
She kissed Miss Molyneux and then she said:
"I'm afraid I can never come again.”
~ Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
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